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13 Bolotnaya st. The Children’s Center of Historical Education
(Branch of the Museum of Russia’s Political History)
  
Located among standard multi-storey blocks of the city’s largest dormitory suburbs, an old wooden building of the museum in Bolotnaya street looks like a house from a fairy-tale. How could this tower-topped structure decorated with exquisite wood-carvings and stained glass survive the turmoil of the 20th century? It’s secret obviously has to do with the events and personalities of the Russian revolution. On October 16, 1917 the mansion witnessed a secret meeting of the Central Committee of the Bolshevist Party which made a decision to fight for the power using armed forces. The house was safeguarded by the fact that Lenin, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky, Kalinin and other Bolshevist leaders who later became responsible for the country’s fate, had attended meetings within its walls.
The mansion’s history is rather thrilling: starting from 1908 it was owned by G. Bertling, manager of St Petersburg branch of “Zinger” company, and his family. Later, in 1921 it housed an orphanage supervised by the International Organization for Aid to Revolutionaries (IOAR-MOPR). In 1998 the century-old house was handed over to children: the Museum of Russia’s Political History created here a Children’s Center of Historical Education. Over the decade the Center has been visited by thousands of young St. Petersburg citizens who took part in game training, festivals and workshops arranged by the museum.
Address: Bolotnaya st. 13 (“Ploschad Muzhestva” metro station)
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2012 • [февраль]
Санкт-Петербург,
Петропавловская крепость,
Невская куртина,
левая сторона
(ППК)
[карта]
Телефоны:
(812) 233-0040,
(812) 233-0553,
Факс:
(812) 233-0040
e-mail:
office@proarte.ru
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